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Tag: Command line tools

There’s a word in computing for saving something, & that word is “save” – except in nano, obviously

The world of command line tools is still alien to me, even though I use a terminal every day. And it annoys the crap out of me for being deliberately weird.  Continue reading There’s a word in computing for saving something, & that word is “save” – except in nano, obviously

Posted on April 4, 2016May 13, 2016Categories Grump, UXTags Command line tools, I hate commandline
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